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Indonesia - State owned sugar producer diversifies into ethanol production
2013-02-13 08:37:31| Sugar Industry News
State-owned sugar and tobacco plantation firm PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) X is diversifying into production of biofuels and electricity this year in an effort to maintain its competitiveness, reported The Jakarta Post.
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BlackBerry, Monitise to begin BBM Money trial in Indonesia
2013-02-12 00:22:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) UK-based mobile money platform provider Monitise, BlackBerry, and PermataBank will shortly launch a mobile payments service for BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) following a commercial pilot in Indonesia. The BBM Money feature has been created by Indonesian financial institution PermataBank and BlackBerry, with the support of Agit Monitise Indonesia, a joint venture between Monitise Asia Pacific and Astra Graphia Information Technology (Agit). Following approval for the new service from the central bank in Indonesia, BBM Money is rolling out via a commercial pilot for BlackBerry smartphones in the country, ahead of a full launch. BlackBerry users will have the option to access a Mobile Money account from their smartphone and make real-time payments from within BBM to their contacts who are also signed up to the service, buy mobile airtime credit, and transfer money to bank accounts.
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Indonesia: APP commits to end deforestation!
2013-02-11 03:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenpeace: Today was a day I have at times feared might never come, but Ive just emerged from a packed press conference in Jakarta for the launch of Asia Pulp & Papers new Forest Conservation Policy aimed to end its involvement in deforestation. Ive personally invested, along with many of my colleagues, endless hours into our campaign to persuade APP to make this step. After a great deal of blood, toil, sweat and tears, today the company did just that announcing an immediate moratorium on further...
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The Orangutans Road: Illegal Logging and Mining in Indonesia
2013-02-10 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Brookings: Like in a desolate Edward Hopper landscape, the orangutan was clinging to the one last tree that stood next to the river in Kutai National Park in eastern Kalimantan. The joy of seeing this magnificent primate was spoiled by his destroyed habitat -- under normal circumstances, the orangutan would never venture so far out of trees. But here he was in a beyond-degraded and marginal habitat, probably looking for food he could no longer find inside the forest. Although once a jewel of biodiversity...
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Indonesia: Environmental Activism at its Best: Greenpeace's Push to Stop the Pulping of Rain Forests
2013-02-08 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: There`s much about 20th-century-style environmentalism that doesn`t work in this era. Demonizing Big Coal or Big Oil in climate campaigns gives a pass to those of us filling up our gas tanks or relying on electricity at home. But there are plenty of situations where in-your-face activism has a role. A case in point has been environmental campaigns against companies pressing into Asia`s last rain forest frontiers. A headline is sometimes enough to convey a big development, and that was the case...
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